intro to ethics
Cultural Relativism would say that
culturally derived standards determine right and wrong.
A common moral belief, such as honoring parents, must result in similar behaviors in all cultures.
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Ethical Objectivism asserts that, in order to be moral, everyone in every situation must respond with the same ethical behaviors.
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Ethical Objectivism requires Moral Absolutism.
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Ethics gives us a royal road to moral truth.
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In Ethical Objectivism, there is no room for disagreement, because all ethics are universal.
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In valuing cultural diversity, we must accept all cultural morality as acceptable.
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According to Subjective Relativism, Adolf Hitler
had a moral right for his actions.
According to Emotivism, moral disagreements are not conflicts of belief, but are disagreements in attitude.
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According to Emotivism, there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" only "like" or "dislike."
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Cultural Relativism would assert that objective morality is impossible.
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Embracing without question the moral beliefs of your culture can undermine your personal freedom.
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Emotivism is the belief that moral judgments are non-cognitive.
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Even if moral judgments of people in various cultures differ, such differences do not show that morality is relative to culture.
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Subjective relativism implies that individuals are morally infallible.
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Ethics, or ethical philosophy, is...
the systematic study of morals, values and virtues.
Subjective relativism is
the view that an action is morally right is one approves of it.
Cultural relativism is
the view that culture determines morality.
Moral objectivism is based on
a universal set of beliefs concerning right and wrong, good and bad.
Subjective relativism tells us that
action X is right for Anne if she approves of it.